Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill is a town in North Carolina and the home of the University of North Carolina (UNC), the oldest state university in the United States. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 48,715.

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North Carolina - University of North Carolina - United States - 2000

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It is located in the southeast corner of Orange County, with municipal boundaries extending slightly into Durham County to the east and Chatham County to the south.

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Orange County - Durham County - Chatham County

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Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, so named in 1959 with the creation of the Research Triangle Park, a research park between Durham and Raleigh. Since the early 1980s, Cary, near Raleigh, has grown to be more than twice the size of Chapel Hill.

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Durham - Raleigh - Research Triangle - 1959 - Research Triangle Park - 1980s - Cary

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